Re: SmartPointer & Inheritance & Explicit Constructors

From:
 James Kanze <james.kanze@gmail.com>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.c++
Date:
Sun, 17 Jun 2007 14:16:57 -0000
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On Jun 17, 10:56 am, "Chris Thomasson" <cris...@comcast.net> wrote:

"James Kanze" <james.ka...@gmail.com> wrote in message

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On Jun 9, 10:16 am, Gianni Mariani <gi3nos...@mariani.ws> wrote:

[...]

Garbage collection is not free, it can be somewhat expensive
in compute resources.

Which explains why programs using garbage collection are
typically faster than those without.


What type of garbage collection are you talking about?


The Boehm collector.

Some of the methods
used to actually implement most types of "general purpose" garbage
collection are overkill and can have an overall negative effect on
scalability and performance in general.


You can always find exceptions. I said generally.

IMHO, C++ simply does not need a GC.


Nor did it need templates, nor exceptions. It's just a tool
which means less work for the programmer.

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